农村教育 Rural Education

农村教育
Rural Education

Jiang He obtained his Ph.D. degree in biophysics and biochemistry. Jiang’s achievements have been recognized by being listed on Forbes 30 under 30 in healthcare, 2017, which recognizes the highly innovative “game-changers” in the field. He is also chosen as the Spotlight Health Scholar at Aspen Ideas Festival by Aspen Institute in 2017, among a diverse group of 300 leaders from
all over the United States and 30 different countries. He is also known as the first Chinese student to deliver a commencement speech at Harvard.

Wang Guoguang was born in 1971 and grew up in a poor village in Southwest China. From a young age he loved to read and hoped someday to become a teacher. After completing teachers college, he returned to his hometown in Shidian County of the Yunnan Province. Since returning he has dedicated 25 years to working in the area, relying upon his passion for rural education. In his time working as an educator, he has worked as a Head Teacher, the head of an educational research study group, Director of teacher training, Assistant Principal, and he is currently serving as the principal of the Shui Chang Central School in Yunnan – in this position he is in charge of managing education in Shui Chang County.

Wang Xiaoping is Vice-Secretary General for Brooks (Tian Xia Xi) and is in charge of creating and managing teaching materials for the organization. From 2005 she has managed the creation and dissemination of materials to rural communities. She personally has worked on 7 types of localized education programs that are being used by students which included the creation of 3 handbooks. She has served as head of the 3rd and 4th Annual Symposium for Creating Localized Cultural Preservation Programs for Rural Communities. She has lead many trainings for teachers and has become very familiar with theories and methods for creating curriculum and teaching materials. She is dedicated to helping manage programs across the country to preserve culture, and is working to bring these programs to a greater number of classrooms.

Jin Zhang, founder & chairman of Youwei library, MPhil from land economy department, Cambridge University, UK. After a decade’s work in finance, she became concerned with the sleepy core of hometown, Sanmen. She founded a grass-root community library to enliven her home town and brings the non-profit values to the locals. Five years later, 4% of the local residents are regular readers and over 1000 volunteers support daily operation of Youwei library. A library began a revitalization that would bring this little town back to life.

With the mission to provide a healthy, happy, and enriching learning environment for Beijing’s migrant children, Ms.Hong Zheng founded the Dandelion School in 2005 in Beijing’s southern suburbs. Endorsed by the local government of Beijing, the Dandelion School is China’s first not-for-profit, public welfare middle school devoted to meeting the educational needs of Beijing’s migrant students. Currently home to nearly 630 students, the Dandelion School has been providing migrant children with both a traditional junior high education, along with trainings on vocational skills. Such initiative enables graduates to either further pursue their academic goals at the senior high level or to explore a potential career path based on their will.